The 4-vol. main set consists of 97 of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers; some have been rev. and updated. The supplements cover writers not included in the original series

Supplement 2, <4> have editor in chief, A. Walton Litz ; Suppl. <3> edited by Lea Bechler, A. Walton Litz ; Retrospective suppl. 1, c1998, edited by A. Walton Litz & Molly Weigel ; Suppl. 5-<19> and Retrospective suppl. 2 have editor-in-chief, Jay Parini

Two different volumes issued as Restrospective supplement II

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 1. Henry Adams to T.S. Eliot.--v. 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carsons McCullers.--v. 3. Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana.--v. 4. Isaac Bashevis Singer to Richard Wright.--Supplement[s] : 1, pt. 1. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier.--1, pt. 2. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie.--2, pt. 1. W.H. Auden to O. Henry.--2, pt. 2. Robinson Jeffers to Yvor Winter. --3, pt. 1. John Ashbery to Walker Percy. --3, pt. 2. Philip Roth to Louis Zukofsky and Cummulative index to volumes 1-4 -- Supplements 1,2 and 3 -- Supplement 4, pt. 1. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan. pt. 2. Susan Howe to Gore Vidal -- Suppl. 5. Russell Banks - Charles Wright

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